Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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51 Years of Railroad Photography |
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Golden Spike Tower
Bailey Yard
North Platte, NE
Aug. 17, 2011
| Upon arrival at North Platte, we headed to UP's Bailey Yard and the Golden Spike observation tower. |
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| This model of the diesel shop is outside the elevator landing on the 7th floor, the level of the outside observation deck. |
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| The flags of the states served by the UP surround the base of the Golden Spike tower, here is a sampling. | |||
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| This corn foeld has a design of a steam engine and a 4-leaf clover and the message "Nebraska Celebrates". |
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| Here are some views from the observation deck of the tower. |
| Locomotive backshop and service area. |
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General views of the yard. |
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| Eastbound hump yard. |
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| Cars humping on the westbound hump. |
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| Service tracks for the through trains. |
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| Former MP slugs used at North Little Rock hump yard. |
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| A loaded coal train pulling out of the service area and heading east through the yard. |
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| My ride returns from a shopping trip. |  |
| In the lobby at the base of the tower, there is a tribute to the Red Cross Canteen which during WWII serviced every troop train passing through North Platte, long before this huge yard was built. In this cabinet are momentos of that era. |
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| We drove west along side of the yard on our way to a crossing which led us back to US 30. Here is the eastbound hump. |
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| Then a string of locomotives. |
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| And finally our crossing at the west end of the yard. First looking west at a train in the distance and then east at several trains in the yard. |
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